Descartes reinvented /
Sorell, Tom.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Radical doubt and inner space -- A doubt that over-reaches itself? -- Unreconstructed Cartesianism : the target of doubt -- The species-less self and God -- The solipsistic self as the residue of the doubt : three claims of incoherence -- Innocent Cartesianism in the theory of self-reference -- Self-implicatingness and first person authority -- Knowledge, the self and internalism -- The autonomy of knowing and the "prejudices of childhood" -- Externalism and reflectiveness -- "Meta-epistemology" versus "normative epistemology" -- Internalism and the ethics of belief -- Internalism and externalism -- The belief in foundations -- Unreconstructed Cartesianism and the justification of the new science -- Ideal method and actual practice -- Kinds of success-of --science argument -- Descartes's foundations and innocent Cartesian foundations -- Another innocent cartesianism about foundations? -- Conscious experience and the mind -- Descartes's soul and unreconstructed Cartesianism about the mind -- Toward innocent Cartesianism -- Naturalism and "existential naturalism" -- Reactions to irreducibility claims -- Reason, emotion and action -- Damasio's error -- Cartesian practical reason -- Innocent cartesianism about practical reason -- Anthropology, misogyny, and anthropocentrism -- Cartesian misogyny? -- Cartesian speciesism -- Lesser parts of worthwhile wholes and rationalist intervention.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.